A two-year fight to get a working janitorial system in Khayelitsha is set to go to court next week if the final letter of demand is ignored.
For the past nine months photographer David Harrison has been documenting sanitation issues in the informal settlements around Khayelitsha.
The state is working to fix sanitation in Limpopo’s schools. But will it fix policy, too?
A damning and long-awaited report into sanitation has been quietly published on the human settlement department’s website.
Cape Town is revising a pioneering programme that was meant to maintain and keep toilets clean and provide jobs.
The popularity of saniters has as much to do with health as fashion and the jury is out over their efficacy, writes Laura Barton.
Since the late 1990s the government has rolled out huge sanitation projects as part of the reconstruction and development programme.
We pay for antibacterial wipes while Third World children die because of a lack of basic sanitation.
Sean Christie headed to Mozambique to follow up rumours of Portuguese sabotage. What he found was an impressive clean up of Beira’s disused sewers.